I interviewed a teacher at the school where I did my field experience and asked her why she chose to become a teacher.
I teach as of now third through fourth grades in all subjects(math, reading, history, etc..) in the north forest district in Houston, Texas. I believe that each child, each person, has unique gifts. It's up to the school and educators to engage, motivate and challenge students and families to recognize and build on their strengths and abilities. I believe in providing opportunities for children to find their own ways, their own rhythms and their own strengths. I hope to challenge children to be "possibility thinkers!" to watch students grow and become more aware of their world and their place in it. I also enjoy helping students understand complicated concepts. I love to see how much a student has matured from freshman to senior year and to know that I had a hand in it. I graduated from Mac Author High school, attended Western Kentucky University where I received my B.S. in geology and I received my master in education from T.S.U. The reason why I advance my career was for me to work in an administration area or to work on programs to help students in the curriculum. I encourage other teachers to advance their degree’s to gain more access to materials to help students in educations.
I love teaching for the children. The tall ones, the small ones, the slow ones, the curious ones, the hateful ones and the loving ones. They way they don't believe anything if it doesn't match what they already believe. And I love their survival skills. I love the fact that each day is a wondrous new space of time to fill with good feelings and good activities. I hated meetings administrators called just because they could. I also hated all the paperwork that had nothing directly to do with what I was doing in my classroom. Grading papers was not a part of that. Grading papers did have direct affect on my teaching. I hated the layer upon layer of standardized testing. Students are human beings and they defy standardization. John does not learn the same way Jane does and they should not be tested the same way either, but some senator or such went to school, and so knows everything about it.
When I started teaching, I wish I had known how much I was going to learn from my students. Going in to teaching you think you are the expert and should know everything. But in all reality, for me, I learned as much as I taught every day. I would encourage all new teachers to be open minded, to listen, and to be willing to learn. When a school or district decides to implement education technology into the curriculum, one of its overriding goals must be to create plans and policies for all members of the learning community to have equitable access and use. Appropriate funding and professional development represent the key means of supporting equitable access and use of technology to ensure technology literacy and to support meaningful learning for all students. Technology deployed in education can help remove inequities between the schools of the inner city and the suburbs, between cities, and rural districts. Technology can become the force that equalizes the educational opportunities of all children regardless of location and social and economic circumstance.
To promote student learning, technology must be used in effective, engaging ways. Understanding the impact of technology requires asking the right questions: "Rather than asking how many schools have VCRs, we should ask, 'At any one time, what portion of students are engaged in learning based on the material viewed through video?' " Teachers who promote meaningful, engaged learning through authentic uses of technology are providing students with opportunities to interact with a wealth of resources, materials, and data sets. When educational technology applications such as the Internet, distance learning, CD-ROMs, and video are used at the classroom level to help achieve challenging educational standards, they provide powerful alternatives for creating more effective learning environments and more productive learning opportunities.
My two favorite loves are people and health! I live my life with both as my guiding force! As for my love of people I cherish each and every moment spent with family, friends and students (past and present!). As for my love of health I embrace nature, exercise and a healthy lifestyle! I live each day to its fullest and can never get enough of the three. How I feel about discipline is there are essentially three main types of discipline. There is preventative discipline, supportive discipline, and corrective discipline. Preventative discipline refers to the strategies that teachers use to prevent student misbehaviors. Teachers use supportive discipline when they help students gain back their self-control or when they lead students back in the right direction if they begin to show signs of misbehavior. Corrective discipline involves the implementation of consequences or punishments for students that have misbehaved or broken the rules of the classroom discipline policy.
Teachers make more than a salary they make a difference in their students' lives. The satisfaction of sharing knowledge and mentoring students has called countless teachers to the field. And in coming years, teachers can expect to hear the call of career opportunity. Due to the ""Baby boomers"" teachers are set to retire just as student enrollment soars, creating over a million new teaching jobs within the next decade; so to answer your question no I wouldn’t choose another field as a career.
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